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TECHNOLOGY has devised a new nudity. No starlet could half-hide under bubbles in Babette Newburger's clear blown Plexiglas bathtub. The tub stands on four carved Plexiglas human legs at the Contemporary Crafts' Plastic as Plastic exhibit, which is the most gleamingly contemporary and pertinent of any in New York...
...question that leers out from all this minute computation, of course, is what happens if the Faculty does end up with its much dreaded deficit. Under Harvard University's unusual financing plan (called "each tub on its own bottom" by University phrasemakers), the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, like each other department of the University, must balance its own budget. It may borrow from the University if it runs short one year, but whatever it borrows it must pay back. Long-term expenses, therefore, must be offset by tuition increases for each individual Faculty in order to keep the bottoms...
...just won't settle for sitting through endless reruns of their idol's films or collecting faded photographs. San Francisco Restaurateur Frederick Reeve has always had a passion for Humphrey Bogart, and when he heard of plans to scrap Bogie's African Queen, the grand old tub in which he and Katharine Hepburn chugged down the Ulanga in their 1951 movie, well, something had to be done. So Reeve flew to Nairobi, bought the old girl for $750, now plans to refurbish her for $10,000 more and haul the craft around the country to help raise...
...1880s, in the back room of their neighborhood meat market on Chicago's North Side, the Bavarian Mayer brothers-Oscar, Gottfried and Max-worked hard stuffing sausages. Oscar's wife Louise helped, and their son Oscar G. stood on a butter tub behind the counter to take orders. Weisswurst, Bockwurst, Leberwurst were packed into wicker baskets and piled on horse-drawn wagons to make the rounds. They sold well-enough to send Oscar G. to Harvard, which he left with a Phi Beta Kappa key and ambitions to expand the family business...
...boast the longest bath scene in literary history. As early as page 8, Lee Emanuel starts undressing. But he proves far less interested in drawing water than in pouring streams of consciousness from the taps of James Joyce. It is not until page 122 that he actually enters the tub. By page 517, he has come to a decision: from now on, the shower for him. By then, it's too late. Orlovitz's waterlogged novel has gone down the drain-a victim of its own sluice-of-life...